Location: Baltimore, Maryland

After World War I, men who had fought in the United States military forces were promised a bonus. Imagined as a way to provide them with some financial support in their older age, Congress agreed to pay the bonus in 1945 --nearly thirty years after the end of the war. However, by 1932, veterans of the war were feeling the impact of the Great Depression very sharply.Walter W. Wathers left Portland,...

In December 1933, Thurgood Marshall began preparing for his first major civil-rights case. Marshall, having recently graduated from Howard Law School, returned to his native Baltimore to practice law and became legal advisor to the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Marshall was set on fighting to desegregate the University of Maryland Law School...